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MOUNT EVEREST 8,850M / 29,035FT 2022 EXPEDITION TRIP NOTES MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION TRIP NOTES 2022 EXPEDITION DETAILS Dates: April 1 to June 2, 2022 Duration: 62 days Departure: ex Kathmandu, Nepal Price: US$69,000 per person View from the summit of Everest. Photo: Mike Roberts. During the spring season of 2022, Adventure Consultants will operate its 27th expedition to Mount Everest via the South Col from Nepal. This expedition will bring together the very best components in high altitude guiding to attempt Mount THE ADVENTURE CONSULTANTS Everest. Calling on our many years of experience, our very qualified guides and Sherpa crew offer the EVEREST TEAM most seasoned team in the industry and the most professionally run expeditions available. We can quite LOGISTICS confidently say that our expedition offers you the most resources, the highest guide/Sherpa-to-client The 2022 expedition is being organised by Guy ratio with the best equipment, food and Base Camp Cotter, the director of Adventure Consultants and a support of any expedition operator, making Adventure veteran of 28 years of Everest expedition guiding and Consultants the best value for money. organisation. With technology constantly evolving, Adventure Consultants have kept abreast of all the If you have a desire to stand on the highest summit new techniques and equipment advancements— in the world, this is an exciting opportunity and encompassing the latest in weather forecasting Adventure Consultants can provide you with an facilities, equipment innovations and communications excellent chance of achieving that goal. We believe systems. Everest is not the place to be with an the ascent should be made in the best style possible, organisation that is ‘learning the ropes’, there is a philosophy that has seen us help our expedition too much at stake for that. Adventure Consultants members achieve many successful ascents and given expedition staff, along with the operations and logistics us the best reputation in the arena of high altitude team at the head office in New Zealand, provide the expedition guiding. highest level of backup and support to the climbing team to maximise your chances of success. Contents Copyright © Adventure Consultants Ltd 2021 3 EXPEDITION GUIDES Our international guiding staff are the best in the industry. You will find the Adventure Consultants Mountain Guides companionable and strong expedition leaders with considerable abilities and a willingness to see you achieve your goals. The number of guides is determined by the team size but the normal ratio of guides to members is 1:4. Ang Dorjee Sherpa Summiting Everest initially with us in 1992, Ang Dorjee has moved on to achieve 29 ascents of 8,000m peaks, Everest Expedition Team Leader, Mike Roberts. including Everest 20 times! His skills as a climber are legendary. Ang Dorjee is originally from Pangboche Village in the Khumbu Valley of Nepal, but he now This is coupled with a very strong expedition guiding lives in the USA. He guides on Mount Rainier and leads team and Sherpa contingent, who as you will come to Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro expeditions for Adventure see are second-to-none in the industry. Consultants. He has guided on our successful Everest 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 and EXPEDITION LEADER 2019 expeditions. The Expedition Leader is Mike Roberts, an IFMGA New Lydia Bradey Zealand guide who has led our Everest Expeditions numerous times and has an impressive history on Lydia was the first woman to ascend Mount Everest Everest and other expedition peaks around the world. without oxygen in 1988 and after years of personal Nine times Mike has summited Mount Everest and on climbing is now mountain guiding with Adventure three other occasions has forgone his summit to assist Consultants. Her strong personal skills and breadth other members. He has successfully led expeditions of experience are a real asset on any trip into the to Aconcagua in South America, Vinson Massif in mountains. As well as being a qualified IFMGA Antarctica, Gasherbrum II in Pakistan, Cho Oyu in Tibet Guide from New Zealand she is also a qualified and Muztagh Ata in Western China, and has 12 ascents physiotherapist. Lydia recently guided on Everest, of Denali in Alaska to his name. He has also managed Cho Oyu, Aconcagua, Alpamayo, Lobuche East and in to fit in multiple seasons mountain and ski guiding in Mongolia. In 2008 she guided on our Everest trip, and the Southern Alps of New Zealand, many seasons in successfully summited again, 20 years after her first Antarctica as a Field Leader/Guide to the USA Antarctic summit! Since then she has guided on Ama Dablam, Program, has worked as a Professional Ski Patroller/ Kilimanjaro, Carstensz Pyramid, Island Peak, Vinson and Avalanche Forecaster and is a qualified Physiotherapist. the South Pole, as well as summiting Everest again in 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2019, and Dhaulagiri in 2017. Add Mike’s calm and welcoming personality, and attention to detail into the picture and you have a Rob Smith very personable and experienced guide and Expedition Leader who is passionate about seeing his clients Rob Smith has been guiding since 2000. He divides his achieving their goals, as is reflected in the accolades he time guiding between the Antarctic summer seasons receives from his past clients. Everest Expedition Guiding Team, left to right: Ang Dorjee Sherpa, Lydia Bradey and Rob Smith. Contents Copyright © Adventure Consultants Ltd 2021 4 Climbing the summit ridge between the South Summit and the Hillary Step. Photo: Charley Mace and the greater ranges of the Himalaya. Originally from Omagh, Northern Ireland, Rob is now based in WHAT IT TAKES TO CLIMB Fort William, Scotland. He has guided for Adventure Consultants for many years and his notable guided MOUNT EVEREST ascents include Everest, Vinson Massif, Cho Oyu, Carstensz and Elbrus amongst many others. Rob has The South Col route on Mount Everest is not an summited Everest 5 times and has climbed both the especially technically difficult climb—nor is it the ‘Yak North and South routes. Route’ some non-Everest climbers have termed it. However, it is imperative that expedition members SHERPAS are well versed in the latest techniques and have experience in the high mountain environment. Our Sherpa team has dozens of Everest summits between them. Da Jangbu Sherpa is the Expedition What the photographs do not show are the difficulties and Climbing Sirdar who has summited Everest of operating at these extreme altitudes. It is a physically an impressive 13 times and brings with him demanding ascent, requiring enormous determination considerable knowledge and experience. Because and stamina. An expedition to Everest is not a place of his leadership, we have a legendary group of for those who will give up when the going gets Climbing Sherpas who operate in a harmonious uncomfortable or strenuous. Days can be up to 15 hours atmosphere of cooperation and commitment to the long and although we have lightened the loads you expedition and its members. Our group of Climbing personally carry by having enough Sherpa support to Sherpas is enthusiastic, motivated and regarded as the strongest and most cohesive group of Sherpas on Mount Everest. It is indicative of the reputation that our Sherpa team has earned that Sherpas from other expeditions enthusiastically pursue a future position with the AC team. Our cooking staff are very well known for the quality of the cuisine they produce and are coveted by other team leaders due to the reputation they have established. We have been developing the personnel within our Sherpa team for 26 years and they are an integral part of the Adventure Consultants Everest Team. The Adventure Consultants Everest Sherpa team. Contents Copyright © Adventure Consultants Ltd 2021 5 Descending from the South Col after a successful summit. Photo: Charley Mace Climbing a ladder in the Khumbu Icefall. Photo: Charley Mace Ladder crevasse crossing on the way to Camp 2. Photo: Charley Mace carry your equipment, the days are still arduous and We recognise that no amount of finely tuned taxing, especially over the 7–9 weeks of the expedition. organisation will guarantee anyone the summit of Mount Everest. However, we do believe that our The outcome of the expedition will be determined by experience, combined with your enthusiasm and three broad groups of factors. The first is environmental determination, will provide you with the best possible (weather and snow conditions, etc.). The second is the chance of standing on top of the world. Our track record logistical approach taken by the expedition leaders and on Everest is unmatched with 360 summits to date! the strategies employed to embark on a summit bid. The third is your own preparation in the years prior to the expedition and how you perform whilst the expedition HOW DO I CHOOSE BETWEEN THE is under way. We can help design a training programme that will both physically and mentally prepare you for VARIOUS EXPEDITION PROVIDERS? the climb, but you need to commit the time and energy to ensure you attain the correct conditioning. It is very important to us that the climbers who join our team have expectations that are compatible with the We know that the success of an expedition is programme we offer and the style of expedition we determined by factors that are planned well in advance run. We don’t want to merely ‘fill our expedition’ but of the outset of the actual climbing. During our 26 instead we want a team made up of companionable previous seasons on Mount Everest, we have observed people who are focused on reaching the summit in many other groups attempting to climb the mountain. good style with the highest level of support and safety Many try to emulate our strategies without committing standards, as can be provided by a guiding service on to the level of resources that we provide.
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